The most to fall in a day for the month of January is 102mm (Jan 29, 1992) at the old river station and 126.5mm (Jan 17, 1968) for Robertson Creek, so those records remain. The river and airport stations are usually referred to for records, so Environment Canada should show yesterday as a new record for Januaryd 3rd.

I recorded 61mm for January 3rd at Alberniweather.ca, other stations monitored by UVic at Alberni Elementary and Maquinna recorded 70mm and 80mm respectively. We finished with about 110mm total for the storm at Alberniweather.

The really amazing totals are coming from Tofino though. The UVic station at Wickaninnish school in Tofino has recorded 260mm of rain during the storm over the past couple days. That’s 10 inches! The school received 230mm (9inches) of rain on January 3rd.

Officially, Environment Canada:still hasn’t released numbers from Tofino Airport for the 3rd and 4th.But their record since 1948 for January 3rd is ‘only’ 107mm so surely that record will fall.Since 1945 the record for the month of January and all time is 174.2mm in 1962. so if the Airport got anywhere near what Wickaninnish school got, then Tofino will have set a new all-time record for one-day rain.

And just to put a stamp on it… Check out this picture of the Harbour from Big Wave Dave’s webcam. An extremely high tide (3metres) combined with major runoff makes for a brown, and full looking Harbour.